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The Right Way to Rally Your Troops

Harvard Business Review

For 10 years, I worked as a consultant to John Emery, CEO of Emery Worldwide, now part of UPS. Then, abruptly, he fired someone standing in the room with him: creative director Abel Lenz. “Stop shooting”, he said, followed quickly by: “Abel you’re fired. How do the best CEOs confront that challenge?

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